Category: Practical, maintenance & repairDescription: End of season step-by-step guide
Preparing your yacht for winter ashore is never the most exciting part of the season but, if it's not done properly, it could cost you time and money next year, and delay the start to your season. Get it right first time with YM's top 20 tips

Category: Practical / Practical, maintenance & repairDescription: Ask the Experts: OPre-season on and out of the water checks
Whether you have wintered afloat or ashore, there are a number of things you should do before you embark on that first outing this season. Here is our step by step guide to checks.

Category: Practical / Practical, maintenance & repair / Seamanship & safetyAuthor: Mark TurleyDescription: Improve Your Skills: Preparing your ropes for a new season
Are your mooring lines a bit ropey in more ways than one? Are they suitable for your boat? Would eye-splices help you deploy them? Now's the time to sort them out. (Including, how to make an eye splice in 10 easy steps.)

Category: Practical, maintenance & repairAuthor: Tom CunliffeDescription: Practically speaking
Tom provides a step-by-step guide to drying out safely for a mid-season scrub. Save your self money by using the tide, nominal fee for the use of certain scrubbing grids, rather than paying out for the bottom of your boat to be revealed.

Category: Practical, maintenance & repairAuthor: Peter NielsenDescription: Laying up - important top tips
Is it time for laying up already? Unless your boat is being kept in commission over winter - and recent ones have been so mild there's a good case for doing so. We also look at fighting the damp.

Category: Practical, maintenance & repairAuthor: Peter CaplenDescription: Practical: Winter maintenance work: repairing leaks, identifying causes of overheating and servicing heating and water systems, damaged gel coat, dirty fabrics, leaking windows
Don't neglect your boat during the winter. Sort out those niggling problems you put to one side last season, and make sure you are ready for the new one! Here are some ideas for projects to keep you busy.

Category: Practical / Practical, maintenance & repairDescription: Practical, laying up - Part. 1
What to do while still afloat and some ashore. Next month looks at laying-up jobs that can be done only when ashore.

Category: Practical, maintenance & repairAuthor: Ben MeakinsDescription: Antifouling essentials
As the sailing season approaches, boats begin to start going back into the water. Here's PBO's guide to preparing for, choosing and using antifouling paints. Preparing to paint and putting on the paint.

Category: Gear & equipmentAuthor: Peter NielsenDescription: Laying-up - why & how. What happens if you don't prepare your boat for winter? Peter outlines some of the risks.
Why lay-up afloat? Why lay-up ashore? On balance: what happens if I don't clean out the coolbox? Why should I winterise the sea toilet? How should the water system be laid up? Why should seacocks be serviced at the end of the season?..

Category: Engines / Practical, maintenance & repairAuthor: David Harding/Pat ManleyDescription: Special Feature
Ready for spring: Engine checks.
One you have de-winterised the engine, what else should you check to give yourself the best chance of a trouble-free season? Pat looks over a 22-year-old Mercedes OM636.

Category: Practical, maintenance & repairAuthor: Kieron White, Mike Rothery and John WolfDescription: Our Boats: Discussion point
Three owners share their hints and tips on antifouling solutions for this season

Category: Practical / Practical, maintenance & repairAuthor: Greg CoppDescription: Know how - All the answers to the important questions
Ensure you get no nasty surprises next season by winterising you boat properly now.

Category: Practical / Practical, maintenance & repairAuthor: Peter CaplenDescription: Improve Your Skills: Step-by-step guide to fitting a water pump
If your water system groans every time you turn a tap on it's time you upgraded it. Follow out guide to fitting a variable flow pump.